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Apply Ethical Principles in Medical Decision-Making

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Built from the Wiley title of the same name — professionally edited, technically reviewed, and already relied on by people doing this work.

Source ISBN 9780470946480

How it was built

Sejal Learning Systems rebuilt the book as a course: objectives first, then short video, worked examples, and practice with real feedback. It runs on Coursera at your own pace, with a certificate on completion.

Apply Ethical Principles in Medical Decision-Making is a self-paced online course built from the Wiley title of the same name.

What this course covers

  • Introduction
  • Part I: Medical Ethics, or Doing the Right Thing
  • Chapter 1: What Are Medical Ethics?
  • Chapter 2: Morality in Medicine
  • Chapter 3: The Provider-Patient Relationship
  • Chapter 4: Outside the Examining Room: Running an Ethical Practice
  • Chapter 5: Learning from Mistakes: Disclosing Medical Errors
  • Part II: A Patient's Right to Request, Receive, and Refuse Care
  • Chapter 6: The Ethical Challenges in Distributing Basic Healthcare
  • Chapter 7: When Spirituality and Cultural Beliefs Affect Care
  • Chapter 8: Parental Guidance and Responsibilities
  • Part III: Ethics at the Beginning and End of Life
  • Chapter 9: Two Lives, One Patient: Pregnancy Rights and Issues
  • Chapter 10: When Science Supersedes Sex: Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy
  • Chapter 11: Walking a Fine Line: Examining the Ethics of Abortion
  • Chapter 12: Determining Death: Not an Event, but a Process
  • Chapter 13: Death with Dignity: The Right to Appropriate End-of-Life Care
  • Part IV: Advancing Medical Knowledge with Ethical Clinical Research
  • Chapter 14: Toward Trials without Error: The Evolution of Ethics in Clinical Research
  • Chapter 15: Beyond Guinea Pigs: Anatomy of an Ethical Clinical Trial
  • Chapter 16: Research in Special Populations
  • Chapter 17: It's All in the Genes: The Ethics of Stem Cell and Genetic Research
  • Part V: The Part of Tens
  • Chapter 18: Ten Ethical Issues to Address with Your Patients
  • Chapter 19: Ten High-Profile Medical Ethics Cases
  • Chapter 20: Almost Ten Ethical Issues for the Future